[EAS] Radio World: Fallout Over False Alert Continues

[Adrienne Abbott]

That's the problem...apparently no one ever thought that there would ever be a false EAN issued either accidentally or deliberately by stations which would have their EAS boxes configured to follow the   Commish's orders to immediately retransmit an EAN regardless of the date. And that the false EAN would be received by LP stations which would propagate that EAN to Participating stations according to various state EAS plans. If the violation wasn't so egregious I would say Bobby Bones deserves an award for exposing a major fault in the FCC protocol that had been theorized by some and discounted by many...if there was a section in Part 11 for Felony Stoopid, Bobby should be cited for it while the rest of us try to figure out how to fix the time/date problem. 

Adrienne

> On Oct 28, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Randall Miller <rmiller at kobi5.com> wrote:
> 
> Just read the article.
> Appears to be some confusion. Maybe it's on my part.
> 
> In one paragraph, the author states "The commission in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking this summer clarified that once released, an EAN alert must be transmitted immediately regardless of the time in the JJJHHMM "time of transmission" string of the EAS header."
>